Monday marked a historical day at Walt Disney World, as guests and fans alike awoke to fully closed parks all across the resort, from Magic Kingdom, to EPCOT, to Disney’s Hollywood Studios, and Disney’s Animal Kingdom.
Thanks to the Twitter account @bioreconstruct for getting an aerial view of the parks and elsewhere. Let’s take you around and show you a rare look into some now-empty parks.
Magic Kingdom
The entrance to the Magic Kingdom itself had only security staff lurking at the MagicBand touch points. A handful of Cast Members are seen in the middle of Main Street, as a few Cast Members were still called in for additional breaking down of the park’s various areas, as well as further sanitation. Otherwise, it’s fascinating to see an otherwise bustling Main Street completely void of guests smack dab in the middle of Spring Break season. Also interesting to note is the raised American flag, regardless of the park’s operational status.
Epcot
And next, we fly on over to EPCOT––the Experimental Prototype City Construction (Project) of Tomorrow. EPCOT is an expansive park, but in this breathtaking shot, we encompass all of World Showcase, Future World, and yes, another empty parking lot.
Disney Springs
Finally, we take a quick look at the West Side segment of Disney Springs, where construction moves slowly on the upcoming new Beatrix restaurant and coffee house.
We’ll continue covering more of what we can from the parks throughout this historic closure. In the meantime we’ll also be keeping our eyes on developments here in California, as well as in Paris, and Tokyo, Shanghai, and Hong Kong regarding the COVID-19 outbreak’s effect on Disney Parks operations and beyond.
